How to Use Groupon Coupons to Save Money While Living Abroad

This chaotic market I visited in Hong Kong is what every single store in the world is like…at least in my mind! It’s why I do almost all my shopping on the internet.

As you may know, I live in Costa Rica, but I do a lot of my shopping over the internet. Today I wanted to mention a few details about how I do that by using resources like Groupon Coupons, since some other expats (people living in a different country than the one they come from) may be able to do it, too! Please note that this post is sponsored by Groupon, but all of the opinions here are mine.

I don’t often talk about the details of my life on this website, but I’ve recently decided to write some new, different kinds of articles for Sitzman ABC. In the past, I’ve focused mainly on language and learning, but looking toward the future, I’d like to add more emphasis on culture, travel, and how to live and work independent of location.

I have to admit right off that I don’t usually like shopping. Sure, there are some times when I go into a store and find something I like right away, but most of that time, it doesn’t happen that way, especially when I’m shopping in Costa Rica. Instead, I feel like I have to try on endless shirts until I find one that I like, and then half the time it’s too expensive and I don’t end up buying it anyhow. So to buy almost everything except fresh food and gasoline, I use the internet. When I use the internet for shopping, things become much easier and painless, and I use sites like Groupon Coupons to easily get discounts on things that I would be buying anyway.

The main market in Palmares, the closest town to where I live in Costa Rica. It’s one-stop-shopping if you need to get a counterfeit brand-name backback and a kilo of dog food while you wait for your sandwich to be prepared, but otherwise that’s about where the advantages of shopping here end.

Take clothes, for example. Over 10 years of living in Costa Rica, in total, I think I’ve bought maybe one pair of pants and a pair of shoes in the country. Everything else I buy through the internet and have delivered to an address in the US, where I can pick it up the next time I visit. And it’s getting easier and easier to do just that.

So if I want to buy some clothes from Nordstrom, for example, it just takes a few seconds to search Groupon Coupons and see that they have 147 Nordstrom coupons available right now! Of course, I won’t be interested in some of them (I personally don’t have much use for a 50% off coupon for women’s boots, but I’d bet my wife might be interested), but I can immediately see several that could help me save money. And since it takes just a few clicks to potentially save a lot of money, why wouldn’t you use it?

You can also follow Groupon on Facebook or Twitter if you want to hear about any new deals they have going on…and actually, I’d recommend checking out Groupon’s Twitter feed anyhow, since a lot of their tweets are surprisingly funny and almost avant-garde, and often not related to shopping or commerce at all!

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